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[Frelock]

Currently, I'm working on a giant coastal fortress/port made completely out of obsidian blocks and wood.  Thus far, I have completed/started:

a)First stage of wall and magma moat circling the entire fortress (to be three stories tall, five tiles wide, and with six-story towers at 3(shift+arrow) intervals.
b)Decently sized, re-usable obsidian farm, with pumps just in case the water gets out of hand (it's constructed underneath the aquifer, which adds complications for the pumps)
c)Pier one successfully completed (with lower platform for fisherdwarves) Pier two started.

[Foa]

Please post a visualization, that will up your self-esteem if it is epic.

I can't wait until I can make squads of more than one person.
So, how do you make a pier?

[Frelock]

Well, given, it's not quite as great as I would like it to be, but here's how I built it:
Note: this method for building a pier only works if you have the walkway itself on beach+1, and pillars at beach+0

1) Build floor tiles out as far as you would like the pier to go.
2) Build bridges alongside the edge of the pier on the beach level (bridges are preferable over floors because when deconstructed, they leave their materials on the same z-level)

.....BBBBBBBBBB~
.....~~~~~~~~~~~
.....~~~~~~~~~~~
.....~~~~~~~~~~~
.....BBBBBBBBBB~

3) Build single walls along regular intervals underneath the floor of the pier (the floor will support the wall below)

.....BBBBBBBBBB~
.0..0~~0~~0~~0~~
.....~~~~~~~~~~~
.0..0~~0~~0~~0~~
.....BBBBBBBBBB~

4) When you get to the end of the bridge, build another bridge in between the last pillar you built and where you want your next pillar built

.....BBBBBBBBBB~~~
.0..0~~0~~0~~0BB~~
.....~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.0..0~~0~~0~~0BB~~
.....BBBBBBBBBB~~~

5) Build the next pillar (should still be supported by the floor)

.....BBBBBBBBBB~~~
.0..0~~0~~0~~0BB0~
.....~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.0..0~~0~~0~~0BB0~
.....BBBBBBBBBB~~~

6) Build the next long bridge next to the pillar, which supports it

.....BBBBBBBBBB~BBBBB
.0..0~~0~~0~~0BB0~
.....~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.0..0~~0~~0~~0BB0~
.....BBBBBBBBBB~BBBBB

7) Repeat steps 3-7 until pier is at desired length
8) Take great care while deconstructing the bridges, so that you leave no material on the seafloor
9) Enjoy tossing captured goblins off the edge of the pier into the ocean to feed the fish.

What this method doesn't do that I would like to do eventually:
It doesn't do anything under the water.  The pier is supported only by the floor attached to the land and the pillars on the beach.  Eventually, I want to deconstruct the whole thing and use magma to make obsidian pillars under the water.  This, however, will take quite a bit of time and planning.  First, I want to make stone houses for all my dwarves and have a basic layout for the city down.  It might also wait until I have the harbor wall started, which would make it laughably easy to make a pier (the ocean is only 1-zlevel deep, so I could just make a harbor wall, pump out all the water, and then use surface construction methods.

[coldstone]

anyone else want to list their completed/started projects for me in their current fort?? i want to see what the average player has going on. list ANYTHING you want to

as for the pier building subject, i have a question.

how useful is it to extend a river say, INTO the fort itself, with a number of 'piers' surrounded by river water to allow a safe fishing area, does this INCREASE the amount of fish available to me? or does it just take up space if youve already got a safe fishing area on the brook?

[Hishan]

are you spamming that thing on all megaproject threads?

well, it is your right.
good work on that tower. how big is it? what is there inside?

Maybe
It is
Thank you
27 z levels, mostly inside the pipe
Noble accomodations

[Ivefan]

On the current map i've used magma to fill out the holes on the top most mountain level, excavated the magma pipe/volcano into a 30x30 square all the way to the bottom and i'm currently waiting for the magma to fill the 'moat' of my current project, A moat of 50x50 containing a gold clad tower on 30x30 25 levels tall.
The magma fills so slow so i considered using tweak to speed it up but it's too much work filling one square at a time.

[Jude]

Completed:
Magma doomsday device. It's ready to fire, although now that I've test-run it I realize I need to floor over the brook so that it doesn't become plugged with obsidian and the pressure ends up spewing out my well into my meeting hall.

Being worked on:
6 z-level dining room. No waterfalls in this one, unfortunately. But I will have balconies, a top level reserved for my nobles, and statuary/engraving throughout.

[Sukasa]

Completed:

Self-repairing walls
Massive water moat
Legendary Dining Room
Waterfall for the Dining Room
Watch Towers
Apartment Block
Fully Engraved underground rooms
Full Barracks
Obsidian Factory
Failed water-based control unit for Obsidian Factory
Nobles Quarters
Magma Vault
Magma Factory

In Progress:
King's Chambers
Second attempt at control system for the Obsidian Factory

[andrea]

self-repairing walls?

[Ivefan]

self-repairing walls?

My thought exactly.
Perhaps solidifying lava? but then, there's nothing that can break walls except dwarves ^^

[Mohreb el Yasim]

you don't always really have a need for a project
like my last one make a floor over all the cart -> inside -> no dwarf vomiting everywhere ...

[GoldPanda]

Current project: underground greenhouse with clear glass ceiling tiles that lets light in. The greenhouse has been dug out. The farm plot is ready. The ceiling has been channeled out. I'm about 1/6 of the way through putting down 66 clear glass floor tiles.

The sad part is that I don't even need the extra food.

[sneakey pete]

Intricate entrance way that slopes down (ie, is just not a vertical stairwell), and has a diverted brook or something running down beside it. Thinking about making a large underground 'lobby' as well, so that i can fight the goblins there, save hauling all the crap through the longish entrance. Bonus points if i can make it wagon accessible, and if i can include some kind of kill switch that makes it flood

Still in the planning stage, but i've got a fort already set up etc. Only problem i have is that the only chasm tiles on the map are HFS tiles. This could be interesting.

[Minstrel]

I just started building a bedroom tower going DOOOWN! (started in the middle of a mountain, mining and bedrooming down, workshopping up). Hit no snags as of yet, but then it is year 1.

[Tormy]

Current project: The King of the Arenas.
I am constructing a 100x100 arena [outer parts: maze style with some traps, inner part: big room], everything will be engraved in it.[Partially done]
Ive captured like 40 gobbos, 20 elves, 1 hydra, some trolls and other creatures. They are waiting in cages.